This is so interest (and kinda funny) I had to share it.... gotta start being carful with those Hard drive cams! This is from another board:
As camcorder repairman I got presented with a brand new Sony SR100 camcorder (hard-disk based) that failed a drop-test after 2 hours.
Customer wants material removed and stored on backup medium ............... me offer ............. me get bitten.
So the cam's material is available as mpegs via a USB interface - Windows has no problem with them as such, but during the copy process I get a horde of virus warnings about Brontok.C virus infected files trying to drop their payloads during the USB copy process.
Files named :
Data XPReloaded.exe
DCIM.exe
100msdcf.exe
MP_Root.exe and many many more
Who knows how those files got on there in such a short time - customer says he never had it connected to his computer and have just started using the cam (see and hear me go Yeah Right! )
So I guess the lesson here is any cam with a USB interface masquerading as a simple "drive" under Windows, can get infected by viri/worms etc in the same way as the SR100 - and then spread its miseries far and wide ................ first time its bitten me though - lucky AVG caught the buggers.
May the force be with you "professional editors" capturing from other cams via USB (just about forced to with the latest models that do not/will no longer support 1394 or tapes.............)
As camcorder repairman I got presented with a brand new Sony SR100 camcorder (hard-disk based) that failed a drop-test after 2 hours.
Customer wants material removed and stored on backup medium ............... me offer ............. me get bitten.
So the cam's material is available as mpegs via a USB interface - Windows has no problem with them as such, but during the copy process I get a horde of virus warnings about Brontok.C virus infected files trying to drop their payloads during the USB copy process.
Files named :
Data XPReloaded.exe
DCIM.exe
100msdcf.exe
MP_Root.exe and many many more
Who knows how those files got on there in such a short time - customer says he never had it connected to his computer and have just started using the cam (see and hear me go Yeah Right! )
So I guess the lesson here is any cam with a USB interface masquerading as a simple "drive" under Windows, can get infected by viri/worms etc in the same way as the SR100 - and then spread its miseries far and wide ................ first time its bitten me though - lucky AVG caught the buggers.
May the force be with you "professional editors" capturing from other cams via USB (just about forced to with the latest models that do not/will no longer support 1394 or tapes.............)